Tractatus de Juribus Judaeorum / Von Recht der Juden. Worinnen von denen Gesetzen, denen sie unterworffen, deren Heyrathen, Contracten, Wucher, Testamenten. [“Laws of the Jews: Marriage, Contracts, Usury, Testaments”].

AUCTION 54 | Wednesday, March 21st, 2012 at 1:00
Fine Judaica: Printed Books, Manuscripts Autograph Letters, Graphic & Ceremonial Art

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Lot 68
BECK, JOHANNES JODOCUS.

Tractatus de Juribus Judaeorum / Von Recht der Juden. Worinnen von denen Gesetzen, denen sie unterworffen, deren Heyrathen, Contracten, Wucher, Testamenten. [“Laws of the Jews: Marriage, Contracts, Usury, Testaments”].

<<FIRST EDITION.>> Title in red and black with historiated initials. pp. (18), 603. Ex-library. Contemporary vellum. 4to.

Nürnberg: Georg Christoph Lochners 1731

Est: $500 - $700
Engraved frontispiece with four illustrated vignettes depicting: Jewish Marriage Ceremony; Deathbed scene; Financial dealings; and Judicial death-sentence (see Rubens, Jewish Iconography 1394i-1394iv).